Dear Friends, Shortly after being hired by Nancy Schlag at the California Cancer Registry in 1995, I attended my first NAACCR conference in San Francisco. Now, on my last day at C/NET Solutions, I am filled with gratitude for the opportunity to ...
Hi Randi, In general, when an item is being "retired", it needs to be removed from the new user-defined dictionaries. But that's because "retired" means "this data item should never be transmitted by this dictionary again". It's very different than ...
Hi Randi, Sounds like it would be just personal registry preference. We were rather disappointed that the new smoking data item was not compatible with the existing 4 tobacco-use data items, so we continue to keep the 4 as required and we ...
When our state retires (i.e., no longer requires) state-specific data items, how do we handle this in our user-defined dictionary? Our specific example is that we continued to require the "Forever 7" data items resulting from our participation in the ...
Hi Sas analysts! This post announces the availability of SAS macros for performing flexible parametric regression analysis of relative survival. These macros represent an implementation of Stata's stpm2 user-supplied program, originally developed by Paul ...